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ASSOCIATION 




HISTORY 

CONSTITUTION 

BY-LAWS 



Cleveland 

Teachers' Mutual Assistance 

Association 



Twenty -five years ago a number of the teachers 
of the city of Cleveland realized that a society for 
mutual benefit was needed. 

After several meetings at which different plans 
were discussed an. association to be known as the 
Cleveland Teachers' Mutual Assistance Association 
was formed with a membership of about three hundred. 

The teachers most active in this movement were, 
Miss Harriet Keeler, Miss Bettie Dutton, Miss Ellen 
G. Reveley, Miss Kate Brennan, Miss Mary J. Johns- 
ton, Miss Eliza Corlett, and Miss Martha E. French. 

The first officers of the association were, Miss 
Keeler, President; Miss Dutton, Secretary and Miss 
French, Treasurer. The success of the association 
has proved the wisdom of the undertaking. At the 
present time the association has a membership of 
about one thousand. 

The Board of Control, consisting of the officers 
and one member of the supervisory force, meets once 
a month to approve claims made upon the association. 

No initiation fee is charged and no contributions 
of any kind are asked. The society depends entirely 
upon its assessments. 

There is a small emergency fund accruing from 
money returned to the association by those who did 
not wish to accept benefits due them. 

The association has no charitable features con- 
nected with it. Benefits are not given to those only, 
who need them, but to any member who has been ill. 

During the past twenty -five years, $36,722 has 
been paid in by assessments and $35,950 paid out in 
sick benefits. 

The first year these benefits amounted to $208. 
Last year $4,248.50 was paid out for the same purpose. 

The present officers are, Mary E. Roberts, Presi- 
dent; Ellen Heidenreich, Secretary; and Hannah 
Handler, Treasurer. March, 1904. 

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CONSTITUTION. 

ARTICLE I. 

Section 1. This Association shall be known as 
the Cleveland Teachers' Mutual Assistance Associa- 
tion. 

Sec. 2. The object of this Association shall be 
to provide means whereby teachers unable to labor, 
because of accident or illness, may receive pecuniary 
assistance. 

ARTICLE II. 

Any teacher employed in the Cleveland Public 
Schools, and in the actual service therein, may 
become a member of this Association by signing the 
constitution and paying the required dues. 

ARTICLE III. 

The officers of this Association shall consist of a 
President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shall be 
elected at each annual meeting; these officers, with 
the two Supervising Principals, shall constitute a 
Board of Control, to whom all affairs of the Associa- 
tion shall be entrusted. 



BV-UAWS. 

ARTICLE I. 

The maximum amount for which any member of 
this Association may be assessed, shall be ten cents 
(10 cts.) per week during the school year. 

• ARTICLE II. 

Section 1. Absence of any member from school 
on account of accident or illness, shall of itself 
establish a claim upon the Society for assistance; 
providing, however, that this absence extends over a 
longer period than two (2) weeks. 

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Sec. 2. Such assistance may be extended over 
a period of twelve (12) weeks, counting from the end 
of the second week of illness. This sum shall con- 
stitute the maximum amount which shall be paid 
during any twelve (12) consecutive months. 

Sec 3. The amount to be paid to any member 
absent on account of accident or illness, shall be 
seven dollars ($7.00) per week. 

Sec. 4. The sums to be disbursed by this Society 
shall be raised by assessments upon its members, 
when authorized by the Board of Control. 

SEC. 5. A member neglecting to pay any assess- 
ment during the year shall be held to have forfeited 
his membership. A failure to pay an assessment 
within two weeks after receiving notice shall con- 
stitute such forfeiture. 

Sec 6. A membership so forfeited may be re- 
gained by the consent of the Board of Control. The 
conditions of such renewal of membership shall be 
held to be — that the applicant be in good health ; that 
he pay the delinquent assessments, and sign the 
constitution. 

SEC. 7. Either the constitution or the by-laws 
of this Association, may be amended at any meeting 
of the Society, by a majority of its members. 

- Sec. 8. The annual meeting shall be held during 
the month of September, at the call of the President. 

Sec. 9- If the death of any member occur by 
accident or after brief illness, the Board of Control 
shall be empowered to appropriate a reasonable sum 
for funeral expenses, if in their judgement it seem 
best. 



I. Article III. of the constitution shall be 
amended by striking out the words "two Supervising 
Principals" and inserting in their place, "all the 
Supervisors of the Cleveland Public Schools." 

II. No teacher shall forfeit membership for 
non-payment of assessments during illness, providing 
the Assessments are promptly paid upon the termi- 
nation of such illness. 

III. Article II., Section 2, of the by-laws shall 
read, "The assistance of this Society to its members 
may be extended over a period of twelve weeks, this 
being the maximum time which shall be paid any 
member during any twelve consecutive months." 

IV. The amount paid to any member absent on 
account of accident or illness shall be at the rate of 
eighty cents per day for the first month, beginning 
at the end of the first week of illness ; and the amount 
paid to any member absent on account of accident or 
illness for a period longer than four weeks shall be at 
the rate of one dollar and eighty cents per day there- 
after. The maximum amount paid to any member 
within twelve consecutive months shall be eighty - 
four dollars for twelve weeks illness, as provided for 
in the original Constitution. 

This Amendment shall repeal Amendment III. 

V. This Amendment shall repeal Amendment 
IV and again making operative Sec. II and Sec. Ill 
of Art. II. 

VI. Amendment I. shall be changed to read as 
follows: — Article III. of the Constitution shall be 
amended by striking out the words "two Supervising 
Principals" and inserting in their place, "the Super- 
intendents, General Supervisors of the Cleveland 
Public Schools and an Advisory Board consisting of 
former officers of the society. 



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